Really, haven't we Godwinned this thread to hell and back? ^_^
As for trigger words, I'm probably in the small minority of the Filipino people that responds to the words "Bataan Death March" with "Macarthur should have been with them so he could pay for his stupidity. War Plan Orange, my ass!", but hey, I blame that on my environment. ^_^
As for the other words I have minor twinges but as I said, I turn them off in advance when I'm approaching a work that I know contains some inflammatoriness. if they're not in my face I won't respond to them; which is why I wouldn't read the Turner Diaries or some of the really in-your-face stuff; but I can read Lovecraft and Howard with their "savage black hordes" and "dark horrors" with ease.
Probably my biggest trigger words are "Philippine-American War" and a few others that are pretty obscure for an American writer to twig on; my only big name trigger is "Hiroshima" but that's because of stories and nuclear destruction and Mama's birthday. Not that "Buchenvald" and other places of horror don't trigger anything, but I have the "Liberation of Manila" and the "Kempetai" as a nearer and much more immediate trigger words.
But back to Ringo, the "Ghost" series is ... in kind words, special forces self-insertion, only Clancy can do it better and Marcinko can do it worse. I enjoy it as and 80s action movie in print: ever watched Arnold's "Commando"? If so, turn that dial from "1", which is that movie, to "11"; sneering villains, women in distress, punchy action and dialogue you can kill a buffalo with; fun in a way but not for people who can't turn off the "smarts".
A State of Disobedience is weird in that I pretty much marginally enjoyed it while going all WTF!?!; seriously, Republican/Democrat American dichotomy is lost on me most of the time - I pretty much responded after reading it with at least having something to do while the computer defragged.
The SS book I read because it was part of the Aldenata series and I enjoyed it for the action and not the heavy handed squishy parts which I just read to get the plot and admittedly there to show the reader the macho badassness of the SS and explain why they weren't so bad guys. I still would have read it even with no apologies and it would have been a lot more interesting that way.
The Council War books are fun in a way but I gave up on them because they were a series, same way I gave up on Aldenata and later Honorverse (beyond War of Honor when I heard he was planning for 20 books; aaargh!!!).
Seriously, can't people write simple trilogies or stand-alones anymore? Or if a series, thinner books without the padding? The only series I kept on multi was Hornblower because they're pretty thin books and Aubrey/Maturin because the language and detail was crunchy.
As for trigger words, I'm probably in the small minority of the Filipino people that responds to the words "Bataan Death March" with "Macarthur should have been with them so he could pay for his stupidity. War Plan Orange, my ass!", but hey, I blame that on my environment. ^_^
As for the other words I have minor twinges but as I said, I turn them off in advance when I'm approaching a work that I know contains some inflammatoriness. if they're not in my face I won't respond to them; which is why I wouldn't read the Turner Diaries or some of the really in-your-face stuff; but I can read Lovecraft and Howard with their "savage black hordes" and "dark horrors" with ease.
Probably my biggest trigger words are "Philippine-American War" and a few others that are pretty obscure for an American writer to twig on; my only big name trigger is "Hiroshima" but that's because of stories and nuclear destruction and Mama's birthday. Not that "Buchenvald" and other places of horror don't trigger anything, but I have the "Liberation of Manila" and the "Kempetai" as a nearer and much more immediate trigger words.
But back to Ringo, the "Ghost" series is ... in kind words, special forces self-insertion, only Clancy can do it better and Marcinko can do it worse. I enjoy it as and 80s action movie in print: ever watched Arnold's "Commando"? If so, turn that dial from "1", which is that movie, to "11"; sneering villains, women in distress, punchy action and dialogue you can kill a buffalo with; fun in a way but not for people who can't turn off the "smarts".
A State of Disobedience is weird in that I pretty much marginally enjoyed it while going all WTF!?!; seriously, Republican/Democrat American dichotomy is lost on me most of the time - I pretty much responded after reading it with at least having something to do while the computer defragged.
The SS book I read because it was part of the Aldenata series and I enjoyed it for the action and not the heavy handed squishy parts which I just read to get the plot and admittedly there to show the reader the macho badassness of the SS and explain why they weren't so bad guys. I still would have read it even with no apologies and it would have been a lot more interesting that way.
The Council War books are fun in a way but I gave up on them because they were a series, same way I gave up on Aldenata and later Honorverse (beyond War of Honor when I heard he was planning for 20 books; aaargh!!!).
Seriously, can't people write simple trilogies or stand-alones anymore? Or if a series, thinner books without the padding? The only series I kept on multi was Hornblower because they're pretty thin books and Aubrey/Maturin because the language and detail was crunchy.